The growing pressure on GPs to use chaperones when conducting intimate examinations (vaginal, rectal, breast, testicular) reveals an alarming deterioration in doctor–patient relationships. The peculiar intimacy of the relationship between doctor and patient renders the patient vulnerable to the doctor's abuse of power. Hence, making a sharp distinction between doctor and lover has been one of t...

While foreign pathogens and their products have long been known to activate the innate immune system, the recent recognition of a group of endogenous molecules that serve a similar function has provided a framework for understanding the overlap between the inflammatory responses activated by pathogens and injury. These endogenous molecules, termed alarmins, are normal cell constituents that can...

We reconcile the findings of Holmes et al. (Ecology Letters, 10, 2007, 1182) that 95% confidence intervals for quasi-extinction risk were narrow for many vertebrates of conservation concern, with previous theory predicting wide confidence intervals. We extend previous theory, concerning the precision of quasi-extinction estimates as a function of population dynamic parameters, prediction interv...

Self-nonself model makes a lot of sense in the mechanisms of self versus nonself recognition in the immune system but it failed to explain a great number of findings. Some new immune theory is proposed to accommodate incompatible new findings, including Pattern Recognition Receptors (PRRs) Model and Danger Theory. Inspired from the PRRs model, a novel approach called Conserved Self Pattern Reco...

landslide like phenomena such as earthquake, flood, and volcano eruption are considered as the important natural events which happen every year in the mountainous and the elevated regions of the country and incur substantial damages and losses. today, in the countries involved with the issue of earthquake sliding, there is an increasing tendency in evaluating and zoning of the danger and damage...

A factor that promotes blood vessel growth keeps two types of brain cells alive, say Maharaj et al. (page 491). Their findings might explain why anticancer drugs that block this factor cause neurological side effects. The drug target in question—vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)— binds to receptors on blood vessel endothelial cells. A localized increase in VEGF, which is produced by und...

Many shark populations are in danger of extinction as a direct result of man's activities. A change in attitude and a greater understanding of species' requirements are needed to prevent further destruction and replenish numbers, thus sustaining trade, fisheries and sport activity.

See Teresa dc Lauretis, 'Aesthetic and Feminist Theory: Rethinking Women's Cinema', New German Critique 34, Winter 1985, pp 154-175. Madame X, a harsh, pitiless beauty, the cruel, uncrowned ruler of the China Seas, launched an appeal to all women willing to exchange an everyday existence of almost unbearable boredom, though safe and easy, for a world of uncertainty and danger, but also full of ...

BACKGROUND Tanzania is among the countries with a high maternal mortality ratio. However, it remains unclear how information and education on danger signs of pregnancy translate into appropriate actions when a woman recognizes danger signs. This study aimed to determine women's knowledge of obstetric danger signs during pregnancy and their subsequent healthcare seeking actions. METHODS The st...